Ravi (Ravishankar Sharma) started his career as an assistant to singer-composer Hemant Kumar. Ravi gives credit to music director Hemant da who encouraged Ravi to work as a solo composer and director Devendra Goel (who gave him break in Geeta Bali starrer Vachan (1955)) for having shaped his career as a music director. Ravi gave all the female songs in his debut film to Asha ji and he has been an Asha loyalist with a few melodies sung by Lata ji.

Geeta ji has sung very few songs for Ravi, most of them being duets/group songs. She sang a solo bhajan for the film Ayodhyapati (1956) and two years later, Ravi had Geeta sing a club song “O baabu o laala” for Dilli Ka Thug (1958). This became kind of signature song for the club songs in which Geeta Dutt got soon typecast into. Two years later, Geeta sings a simple and sweet duet “Tumse hi meri zindagi” filmed on Shyama with Mukesh for Apna Ghar (1960).

Even when Ravi got assignment to compose music for Guru Dutt’s “Chaudahavin Ka Chand” (1960), Geeta ji was not giving playback to Waheeda Rehman (who was the leading actress of the film), so she preferred to sing only a background song